Social Media & Marketing Intern (Summer 2026)

Location: Austin, TX
Part-time: 5-8 hours/week; $20/hour
Timing: Mid-June through mid-August (exact dates TBD)

About Miss Lonely

Miss Lonely is a lifestyle brand rooted in scent, storytelling, mood, and memory.

We create candles and experiences for people becoming more themselves. Our world is moody, intimate, playful, and honest. Think: emotional support candles, quiet rituals, shared togetherness, and accepting a lonely lifestyle.

We care deeply about branding, creative direction, visuals, community, and making people feel something.

The Role

We’re looking for a highly creative Social Media & Marketing Intern to help bring the Miss Lonely world to life online.

This is not a “schedule posts and call it a day” internship. We want someone who understands internet culture, visual storytelling, trends, emotional branding, and how to make content that actually resonates.

You should love creating content, have a strong visual eye, and instinctively understand mood, aesthetics, pacing, lighting, and storytelling. If your camera roll is full of oddly beautiful moments, screenshots of creative inspiration, or videos you edited just for fun, you’ll probably fit right in.

You’ll work closely with the founders to help shape content direction, campaigns, launches, and the overall social presence of the brand.

What You’ll Do

  • Help develop social media ideas and creative strategies that grow brand awareness and community

  • Concept, shoot, and edit photo/video content for Instagram and TikTok

  • Create short-form videos, Reels, and TikToks that feel current without feeling overly trend-chasey

  • Help translate trends into content that still feels distinctly “Miss Lonely”

  • Assist with campaign launches, product drops, events, and creative brainstorming

  • Support influencer outreach, community engagement, and UGC initiatives

  • Capture behind-the-scenes moments, lifestyle content, and brand storytelling

  • Contribute ideas that help us grow both creatively and commercially

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong understanding of Instagram, TikTok and current social trends

  • Experience creating and editing content for social media

  • Strong visual taste and attention to aesthetic detail

  • Comfortable shooting both iPhone and camera content

  • Experience with editing tools like CapCut, Lightroom, Premiere, Photoshop, Canva, or similar platforms

  • Someone who is self-directed, collaborative, creative, and reliable

  • A person who understands how branding, storytelling, and emotion work together online

  • Currently studying Marketing, Communications, Design, Photography, Film, or something adjacent — or honestly just really talented

Bonus Points If You…

  • Have experience growing a social account or personal brand

  • Love photography, creative direction, fashion, interiors, music, or internet culture

  • Understand niche/aesthetic branding

  • Have experience creating content for brands, restaurants, artists, or small businesses

  • Know how to make something feel cinematic on minimal resources

  • Can tell when content feels authentic vs. forced

What You’ll Gain

  • Hands-on experience helping shape a growing lifestyle brand

  • Creative ownership and actual input (not just intern busy work)

  • Experience in branding, content strategy, campaign planning, and creative production

  • Portfolio-worthy work across photo, video, and social

  • Exposure to how a modern brand is built from the inside out

How to Apply

Email info@misslonelycandles.com:

  • Your resume

  • A short intro about yourself

  • Links to your portfolio, TikTok, Instagram, or creative work (required)

  • Examples of photo/video content you’ve created

  • A quick note on why this role feels aligned with you

We care more about creativity and perspective than having a perfectly polished resume :)